@Robin Thanks. I thought that this seemed to be a general python thing because it was effecting both installs. However, after also reading Martin's comments ...
@Martin > This is somewhat imprecise: is it > a) that your CPU is AMD64, and thus supports 64-bit mode, or > b) that *in addition*, your Windows 7 installation is a 64-bit > installation, or > c) that *in addition*, your Python installation is also a 64-bit > installation. > > Unless you have a specific need for 64-bit mode, I recommend that you > use the 32-bit version of Windows (unless you have more than 4GB of > main memory), and (even if you have a 64-bit Windows) you install the > 32-bit version of Python on it (unless you have the need to access more > than 2GB of objects in your Python applications. Sorry. I have Windows 7 (64-bit) installed on a machine with an AMD cpu (which supports 64-bit mode), with a 64-bit version of (Activestate) python 2.6 .... although I didn't realise the later until I looked just now. > Install the 32-bit version of Python, and these installers should work fine. Well, I uninstalled the 64-bit version and the installers did indeed work. I’m sorry everyone. I didn’t realise I had installed the 64-bit version of Python. Well, at least someone else might find have the same problem. But I think that there is going to be a bit of a rough patch as everyone moves over to 64-bit. ALJ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
